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Brit survives close-range shot – with the help of his nose!

London, Oct 31 : A British man couldn’t believe his luck when his nose saved him from almost certain death – it stopped a bullet fired at close range.

Daniel Greenwood, 19, was visiting pals when he got himself in a row after a man called David Cummins.

Cummins, 21, shot his victim with a 9mm Cuno Melcher gun when he tried to snatch a gold chain from around his victim''s neck at a house in Manchester on March 22 this year.

But thankfully Daniel’s nose blocked the bullet from piercing his head and saved him, reports the Sun.

An amazing X-ray shows the round lodged in the bridge bone of his hooter, which the doctor removed without any problem.

Courtney Cox to act in brand new comedy series ‘Cougar Town’

Washington, Oct 31 : After acting in hit sitcoms like ‘Friends’ and ‘Scrubs’, Hollywood actress Courtney Cox is all set to play the lead in a new comedy called ‘Cougar Town’.

‘Cougar Town’ will be created by Bill Lawrence, who created Scrubs.

The upcoming program will be based on an attractive, newly single 40-year-old mom (Cox) with a 17-year-old son.

"Forty-year-old women on TV are so beautiful and perfect and wrinkle-free," The Hollywood Reporter quoted Lawrence, as saying.

"People don''t do the reality of it, and there is a real comedy area about a woman who is talking about Botox, about having sex with the lights on and how her body is changing,” he added.

Nicole Kidman tells how her marriage went to ‘hell and back’

Washington, Oct 31 : Nicole Kidman has spoken publicly about her married life, confessing that during the first three months of her marriage with country singer Keith Urban, the pair went to “hell and back.”

The ‘Margot at The Wedding’ actress revealed that her marriage with Urban hit a rocky patch much before expected, when he entered rehab for drug addiction.

However, she added, they came out of it with flying colours.

“We were thrown into his alcohol problem three months into the marriage, and that was big,” she said in an interview with Parade magazine.

“We became the closest we could become, because we had to bare our souls. We did 10 years of marriage in three months,” she added.

Women’s sexual problems don’t always result in distress

Washington, October 31 : A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) physician says that sexual problems in women, though prevalent, are not always associated with distress.

Dr. Jan Shifren, of the MGH Obstetrics and Gynecology Service, found in a survey of women that while 40 per cent of the participants had sexual problems, only 12 per cent of them indicated that those issues were a source of significant personal distress.

British law firms outsourcing services to India to cut costs

London, October 31 : Several law firms in Britain are outsourcing legal services like conveyancing, accident claims and due diligence investigations to India in order to cut costs for the duration of the downturn.

British firms get the services of thousands of Indian lawyers and recent law graduates for a fraction of the cost they would have to bear if work was done in the country.

World''''s largest law firm Clifford Chance is said to have set up its own bespoke offshore centre in Delhi.

Eversheds, another leading UK law firm, has also confirmed that it is taking the services of Indian lawyers.

Dowry a major cause of chronic poverty in Bangladesh

Washington, Oct 31 : Dowry is one of the major causes of chronic poverty in Bangladesh, according to a new study from University of Bath.

The research found that those households with lower levels of education, that owned less land had fewer assets and had many young children,

Moreover, elderly relatives faced the most difficulty in escaping poverty.

Dowry payments of more than 200 times the daily wage and costly medical expenses are major causes of this chronic poverty.

Though dowry is illegal in Bangladesh, but is still practised by most families living in rural areas.

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